Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter." Dr. O'Callaghan has been rewarded. He reports that the Nashville mail service is famed "from Ellis Island to the Golden Gate," that as little as 22% of outgoing mail arrives at the Nashville Post Office after 6 p. m.* The Christmas deluge was spread...
...brought up genteel, and somehow I can't persuade myself that it would be quite genteel to call the situation baldly to my friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will see it. ... This method of communication would actually be surer, as well as more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that...
This service is intended to help students to adjust themselves to the method of college study. The principle is not to lift the burden of work from their shoulders or to compete with the professional tutors and tutoring schools. On the other hand. It is desired that the necessity for the latter be done away with, and that the students learn to study properly...
...majority for war?" Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, sister-in-law of the Vice President, suggested selecting the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee on qualification rather than seniority;* was told satirically (by Denis P. Meyer, Librarian, World Peace Foundation) that "in view of the material available the method of appointment would not greatly matter...
Last spring the problem of reducing competition was attacked by another method. The Union & United Tobacco Corporation was formed to manufacture tobacco products and to distribute them wholesale. But the purpose back of this incorporation, the panoramic intent, associates of Charles A. Whelan explained only last week...